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God is swift in reckoning.

And whoever disowns the signs of God — God is indeed swift in reckoning.

They believe in God and the Last Day, order what is recognized, forbid what is disavowed, and speed toward good deeds.

And speed toward a forgiveness from your Guardian, and a Garden whose extent is that of the heavens and the earth, prepared for those who guard themselves, who spend in ease and hardship, restrain their rage, and overlook men.

And let not those grieve you who speed into disowning:

God is indeed swift in reckoning.

O messenger! Let not those grieve you who speed into disowning, among those who say: "We have believed" with their mouths, without their cores having believed,

You see those in whose cores is a sickness speeding among them, saying: "We dread that a setback may strike us";

And you see many of them speeding into transgression, hostility, and the consumption of illicit gain.

He is the swiftest of those who take account.

Your Guardian is indeed swift in sanction,

Your Guardian is surely swift in sanction,

Say: "God is swifter in plotting."

He is swift in reckoning.

God is indeed swift in reckoning.

they used to speed toward good deeds, and call upon Us in yearning and in reverence, and were humble before Us.

Do they think that, in granting them goods and sons, We speed toward them with the good?

Those who, dreading their Guardian, are apprehensive, and those who believe in the signs of their Guardian, and those who associate nothing with their Guardian, and those who give what they give, their core trembling because they are returning to their Guardian — those speed toward the good,

And God is swift in reckoning.

God is indeed swift in reckoning.

The day the earth will split open from them, rapidly —

So let them be: let them immerse themselves and play, until they meet their Day, the one they are promised — the Day they will emerge from the sepulchres rapidly as if racing toward an erected marker, their sights humble, humiliation veiling them.